Pier Luigi Luisi (Universita degli Studi Roma Tre)

The Emergence of Life

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Addressing the origins of biological and synthetic life from a systems biology perspective, this new edition has undergone an extensive revision and includes greater coverage of synthetic biology. Unique to this edition are discussions with contemporaries in the field, demonstrating an evolution of thought on the question 'what is life?'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 832g
• ISBN-13: 9781108735506
• ISBN-10: 1108735509
• Artikelnr.: 54782550

Autorenporträt

Pier Luigi Luisi is Professor Emeritus at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETHZ) in Switzerland, where he developed his professional career, notably initiating Cortona Week in 1985. He has also held the position of Professor in Biochemistry at the University of Rome 3. He has authored more than 500 peer-reviewed papers as well as a number of books, including The Systems View of Life (with Fritjof Capra, Cambridge, 2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Approaches to the Origin of Life: 1. Setting the stage
2. The hardware
3. Ascending the ramp of complexity
4. Experimental approaches to the origins of life
5. Origin of life from ground zero
Part II. What Is Life? The Bio-Logics of Cellular Life: 6. Autopoiesis - the invariant property
7. Cognition
Part III. Order and Organization in Biological Systems: 8. Self-organization
9. The notion of emergence
10. Self-replication and self-reproduction
Part IV. The World of Vesicles: 11. The various types of surfactant aggregates
12. Vesicle reactivity and transformations
13. Biochemistry and molecular biology in vesicles
Part V. Towards the Synthetic Biology of Minimal Cells: 14. A panoramic view of synthetic biology
15. The minimal cell.